Handwriting SuccessReviews of handwritingsuccess.com

As a nurse, reading Dr.' orders wrongly, is a key to losing your nursing license...so, when I homeschooled my children, this is the program I used and LOVED it. I wasn't going to have them writing all loop-de-loo. I also changed MY handwriting from D'Nealian to this. I now have bought for my grandchildren!

It was easy and simple to order the book for my grandson’s bday.

Does what it says. I wanted to improve my handwriting, and I liked the methodology and the style. It seems well considered. I even bought the fonts. My handwriting is much more legible now and improving. Next comes speed.

This improved my previously illegible handwriting when I took the course 20 years ago, but bad habits crept in so I reordered as I could not find the previous book. Again, it is a step by step approach that is easy to master, fun and productive as people can now read what I write.

Wonderful and easy system to help with handwriting success :)

Very nice books on the practice of handwriting. Clear and thorough

My handwriting sucked and now I like it! It all started when, a couple of months ago, I picked up an old journal of mine, one I started ten years ago. I tried to read its entries, but they were too hard to read. That was a sad moment, realizing I couldn't connect with a past version of myself because I couldn't clearly write my thoughts and feelings. I decided to fix that. I started searching for handwriting systems or programs, and the best one, by far, was Getty-Dubay. I liked that Getty-Dubay is pragmatic. It felt as if other handwriting systems were absurdly ornate horse-drawn carriages (perhaps popular within a silly elite, but wildly impractical in daily life). On the other hand, Getty-Dubay felt like a solid, stylish, and speedy Toyota (or Lexus, if you wanna write particularly pretty letters). It just made sense to choose Getty-Dubay. That's why I bought Write Now and the fonts. So how did it go? Well, for starters, Getty-Dubay isn't entirely utilitarian. It becomes a work of art when you want it to. At baseline, my handwriting is now pretty, and I've had people compliment it. However, I can also write with a fountain pen and write beautiful calligraphy in Getty-Dubay. This to me is insane, given that a couple of months ago I couldn't read my own writing and today I can write astoundingly beautiful letters in fountain pen. More broadly, I like that the company behind Getty-Dubay, Handwriting Success, doesn't feel like a face-less, profit-obsessed company. Yes, they charge money for a product and they are not a charity, but they don't feel like publicly traded companies that are trying to suck the soul out of every living thing to make a profit. Instead, they feel like a company made by humans, starting with Getty and Dubay! This doesn't mean their product is perfect. I do think they could have a better user experience in their website. For example, I wasn't always sure what to buy to practice more: should I buy the Getty-Dubay fonts? Should I buy another Getty-Dubay book? Should I buy the Getty-Dubay teacher guides? Should I write pangrams again and again, as Write Now suggests? I suppose it would help Handwriting Success to have better customer segmentation and, for each segment, have better user story mapping. For my segment (an adult who wanted to improve their handwriting on their own, without a teacher), maybe doing something like what Gold Medal Bodies does with its curriculum guide could help. But, you know what? In the grand scheme of things, all of this segmentation and user story thing is trivial. You're reading this right now because you're wondering if Getty-Dubay is any good. And it is. Buying Write Now and the fonts has been one of the best things I've done for myself and for the people that read my handwriting. I fully recommend it.

I homeschool my four children and the fonts will be used for creating copywork books. It is so nice creating books for my children that have the handwriting we have practiced and loved using.